FractalLP

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by FractalLP 8y ago
Glad to know others exist that just want a basic device that will last a week without charging without massive bloat and apps I don't care about.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Sorry, but I didn't catch your example. Can you explain a little more? What does Perl do better there?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Perl6 is mostly complete. Even though it has been getting significant weekly performance improvements (they have a weekly summary of these things), it still has a long way to go. It has a lot of really cool things such as simple to use conc
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by FractalLP 8y ago
That is one thing I like better in Python than in Perl. In Perl, I was having difficulty with nested data structures and then realized this was something I did in Python daily without even knowing it was a thing on a conscious level. Who ha
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I've used Python for years and a little Perl. CPAN works pretty well when used with ActiveState...not sure about Unix. Python on Windows stinks when using Pip and there is some VisualStudio C++ library dependency you need and they don&
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I think they rewrote in C++ after buying viaweb. I could be wrong though.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Now that you say that i think both Allegro and Lispworks both have that...neat!
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I've never heard of Prolog alongside SCADA. Can you be more specific? Like in a plant or what?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Mini-kanren?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Where do you work? Sounds neat!!
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Venus is like Hell though right? Super hot, acid, high pressures? I guess still click-baity though?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Agreed. HackerNews has a greater than average amount of developers that use Haskell, F#, OCaml, Scheme, and other languages which heavily promote recursion. I'm not sure if I personally find iteration easier because I learned it first,
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Thanks for the synopsis as I don't see a lot of information on the Lispworks and Allegro sites.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
These things all exist, but a lot of them seem like a library from one author as opposed to what is built-in to Java or .NET and had lots of people and money thrown at it. I'm sure the author is a wizard, but how good can the quality b
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Ah thanks! I recall you work for one of the commercial lisp vendors. I assume you use their IDE environment that is similar to emacs? How do you describe using it?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Yea, I was talking about GNU Emacs + Slime. I'm with y'all that Lisp is an extremely powerful and frankly astonishing piece of engineering. It just seems to cater more to those on the fringes and those willing to put in the work t
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Yea, it's much easier to enter a matrix on a modern Casio than the HP calcs and requires fewer keystrokes I believe. I guess navigation of the indices takes up time on the Casio, but it is so intuitive.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Voyage-200 on the TI side was great. A TI-89 with more RAM and horizontal full qwerty keyboard. A monster size wise, but I loved that thing.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I'm thinking about purchasing one of these, glad to hear they're well liked.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Fair enough argument here, although you could probably still argue that it is easier to setup most of those languages than use emacs. That's a non-starter for a lot of devs who aren't open to the long-term benefits.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Once again, you quote isolated incidents when I'm talking about the entire programming industry. I never said it wouldn't work for some people. It might have been Tarver talking about the Lisp curse. Lisp is so powerful that every
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I'll definitely take a look at that, thank you!
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by FractalLP 8y ago
My point is simply that niche languages are harder to hire for and find a job in. Most people aren't okay with that. There is a feedback loop here as less people use it and less libraries are written. That doesn't mean the languag
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by FractalLP 8y ago
How many times have you written a metacircular evaluator in production? How many people code just fine without knowing Maxwell's Laws of Software as one popular blog post describes? Peter Norvig's review on Amazon agrees with you,
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I mean the 1/2 page code was basically a built in dictionary in Python...I felt it was a step backwards. And this is someone who was very open to Lisp...I still think it has value...just a steep learning curve.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
You quoted two companies using Lisp when there are millions of Java devs. That's like a boxer with a record of 1-500. I love Lisp, but c'mon...I guarantee it has far more hobby users than professional users. ABCL, FRANZ, ALLEGRO,
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by FractalLP 8y ago
And it will still look less beneficial than a standard comp Sci degree unfortunately. The only good part is that the school is pretty prestigious, so not as bad. Hopefully we don't have another AI winter.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Probably because Arc is an incomplete hobby project of Paul Graham that will never be finished now and has only a tiny following of a few people. Yes it runs this site, but not much else. Clojure isn't very easy to learn and I found th
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I'd say several reasons: 1.) a lot of folks have trouble with the abstactness 2.) a lot of folks think C syntax is how all languages should be 3.) the lisp ecosystem is fractured into too many lisps like SBCL, Clojure, Racket, Allegro,
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by FractalLP 8y ago
http://lisp-lang.org/success/

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